The biggest problem of any modern military is getting rid of old weapons and equipment. The cheapest way to do that is a war. The biggest problem of any modern democracy is justifying the existance of government. The easiest way to do that is by creating fear. The actual threat from terrorism or bin Laden is not that big. The important thing here is that bin Laden was spinned as an argument to make war and seed fear, that is, as a means to an end. Now that Obama spent the bin Laden card on his re-election, i wonder what will the government put in it's place to avoid actually dealing with the real problems.
Then why is it so dang hard for Americans to switch from inches and pounds?
From Wikipedia: Inertia is the resistance of any [physical object] to a change in its state of motion or rest, or the tendency of [an object] to resist any change in its motion. It is proportional to an object's mass.
There was this guy on a forum and I was trying to find him some introductory links on soft/fake raid. But google only presented me advanced and technical results... I had to get behind another IP to find the entry-level information. I suppose google has a good grip on me - i have had a static IP for some years now, with mostly just one browser signature around, and on top of that I'm usually logged in to the google account. I do not have much of a problem with that - personalised results really are a time-saver when I'm hunting for myself. But, as has been noted, there are downsides and so there really should be a toggle on the feature.
what would it take to cause a problem at one designed with the latest techniques, expertise, and equipment?
Economies of scale, cost reduction, most anything the big business comes up to increase the profit. An earlier example of this would be the BP oil spill.
I personally use linux, and set linux as a precondition to anybody who wants me to admin their computers, exactly because managing windows is too complex. After all, it was managing windows that put the gray hair in my beard. Maybe if someday windows has a package manager and explicit system components...
If I recall correctly, a CD was supposed to last for a hundred years. Maybe the first batch ever will even make a good run, but once it settles into mass production and the competition to lower the price warms up, you can pretty much squash the hope. And when you hit the period when the product is already superseded by the next generation, but still selling by inertia, you will be lucky if it still works by the time you get home with it. A 10k years? Whatever, i'd rather buy the one that promises 10 years.
The headlines are working fast to turn him into the main suspect. A couple of hours ago it was like 'geohot says: wouldn't dare to do that', now it says 'geohot denies' as if he already was a suspect, tomorrow he will be in jail based on evidence gathered by fox news.
They images are catered to their audience, that's all. The cultural background and all that. Wondering why the imageslook different is as good as trying to figure out why americans drink bourbon and russians vodka - they just do what feels natural to them.
How about actually making a good movie for a change? I probably would buy it and probably wouldn't bother to upload it anywhere. Take this to an economy of scale and voila: 3) profit. But no, I am supposed to buy crap movies and suffer antipiracy crap on the side. How did this ever turn into a business model?
Let's face it, all of this dvd->hd->3d stuff is there to hide the fact that the movies suck. 3d was already there in the 50s and nobody cared. Pre-digital cinema was already more hd than any resolution we come up with now. How come the indies are able to actually make good movies but hollywood can't? It is because the hollywood administration guarantees that any good movie idea born there is born dead. Take that to your ict flag.
Make die Bahn running the railway. One of the things I like about Germany is their trainwork. And on a side note, the Dutch should build the damn dam around New Orleans.
Database programmers work in queries per millisecond. Their product has a hell lot of know-how built into it. I would rather trust that than homebrew. If you are going to create a mission critical system in assembler your supply of assembler programmers will become mission critical. Who will be able to fix bugs and add features later? People who breathe assembler have better to do than yet another.com. The multiple of performance and maintainability is a constant. Choose your sweetspot...
First it was that KDE basically made it's ui a mix of vista and macos to have a selling point and rushed out of the door limping. Then adding to that some architecture astronout hogwash about semantic and an unified data store, which currently has more unstable backends than the desktop has apps. Choose one and make it work, people! I will not buy that stuff before I see kmail2, which honestly believes it can build on this (q/k)uicksand. But kmail2 is loong overdue. I bet they spend most of their time trying to straighten out, if not actually create the backends. These days i'm a KDE user just because gnome apps fit in kde better than kde apps in gnome.
Now Gnome is all like 'we want our own plasma shell just because'. When will the linux desktop grow balls to have it's own face and identity, rather than trying to copy others? A copycat has the chance to make it number #1 only if it has the $ of microsoft. Other than that, you're just number #2 like bono.
For what I gather, the desktop metaphor is pretty much finalized, and the resulting idle hands will leave no good design standing if they can replace it with something opaque. If this trend continues we will all be using XFCE in 2013.
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... or as they call it, uptime in exess of five sevens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu
The biggest problem of any modern military is getting rid of old weapons and equipment. The cheapest way to do that is a war.
The biggest problem of any modern democracy is justifying the existance of government. The easiest way to do that is by creating fear.
The actual threat from terrorism or bin Laden is not that big. The important thing here is that bin Laden was spinned as an argument to make war and seed fear, that is, as a means to an end. Now that Obama spent the bin Laden card on his re-election, i wonder what will the government put in it's place to avoid actually dealing with the real problems.
Then why is it so dang hard for Americans to switch from inches and pounds?
From Wikipedia: Inertia is the resistance of any [physical object] to a change in its state of motion or rest, or the tendency of [an object] to resist any change in its motion. It is proportional to an object's mass.
There was this guy on a forum and I was trying to find him some introductory links on soft/fake raid. But google only presented me advanced and technical results... I had to get behind another IP to find the entry-level information. I suppose google has a good grip on me - i have had a static IP for some years now, with mostly just one browser signature around, and on top of that I'm usually logged in to the google account. I do not have much of a problem with that - personalised results really are a time-saver when I'm hunting for myself. But, as has been noted, there are downsides and so there really should be a toggle on the feature.
the final frontier!
it's got zork!
what would it take to cause a problem at one designed with the latest techniques, expertise, and equipment?
Economies of scale, cost reduction, most anything the big business comes up to increase the profit. An earlier example of this would be the BP oil spill.
Kde has user swithching, dunno if it's in the DM or the DE..
I personally use linux, and set linux as a precondition to anybody who wants me to admin their computers, exactly because managing windows is too complex. After all, it was managing windows that put the gray hair in my beard. Maybe if someday windows has a package manager and explicit system components...
Nokia outsources the elimination of 3000 jobs and the killing of Symbian.
If I recall correctly, a CD was supposed to last for a hundred years. Maybe the first batch ever will even make a good run, but once it settles into mass production and the competition to lower the price warms up, you can pretty much squash the hope. And when you hit the period when the product is already superseded by the next generation, but still selling by inertia, you will be lucky if it still works by the time you get home with it. A 10k years? Whatever, i'd rather buy the one that promises 10 years.
The headlines are working fast to turn him into the main suspect. A couple of hours ago it was like 'geohot says: wouldn't dare to do that', now it says 'geohot denies' as if he already was a suspect, tomorrow he will be in jail based on evidence gathered by fox news.
Well the american image feels like this: http://www.ideachampions.com/weblogs/american-flag-2a.jpg?iact=rc&dur=452&ei=NyOUTf-dEYXpOZiq7YwH&oei=NyOUTf-dEYXpOZiq7YwH&page=1&tbnh=139&tbnw=185&start=0&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0&tx=70&ty=49
And the russian image feels like this: http://www.siberiagym.com/map%20of%20russia/russia_rel94.jpg?iact=rc&dur=249&ei=JiSUTeaWBc3EswbHoMWzCA&oei=JiSUTeaWBc3EswbHoMWzCA&page=1&tbnh=144&tbnw=205&start=0&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:0&tx=38&ty=53
They images are catered to their audience, that's all. The cultural background and all that. Wondering why the imageslook different is as good as trying to figure out why americans drink bourbon and russians vodka - they just do what feels natural to them.
My guess is that if there were stockpiles of He-3 there wouldn't be a crisis.
Sounds like Moonbase, played it on pc.
How about actually making a good movie for a change? I probably would buy it and probably wouldn't bother to upload it anywhere. Take this to an economy of scale and voila: 3) profit. But no, I am supposed to buy crap movies and suffer antipiracy crap on the side. How did this ever turn into a business model?
Let's face it, all of this dvd->hd->3d stuff is there to hide the fact that the movies suck. 3d was already there in the 50s and nobody cared. Pre-digital cinema was already more hd than any resolution we come up with now. How come the indies are able to actually make good movies but hollywood can't? It is because the hollywood administration guarantees that any good movie idea born there is born dead. Take that to your ict flag.
Make die Bahn running the railway. One of the things I like about Germany is their trainwork.
And on a side note, the Dutch should build the damn dam around New Orleans.
Database programmers work in queries per millisecond. Their product has a hell lot of know-how built into it. I would rather trust that than homebrew. .com.
If you are going to create a mission critical system in assembler your supply of assembler programmers will become mission critical. Who will be able to fix bugs and add features later? People who breathe assembler have better to do than yet another
The multiple of performance and maintainability is a constant. Choose your sweetspot...
Give me the arm of law long enough, and a bank account to leverage it, and I will move the earth...
Microsoft's problems has been too much engineering/marketing against too little understanding of what the user actually needs to do.
Maybe they should put an acutal user of ther software in charge? No, wait, they already tried it: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp
I thought going for cougars was a safe bet.
... almost already did it
First it was that KDE basically made it's ui a mix of vista and macos to have a selling point and rushed out of the door limping. Then adding to that some architecture astronout hogwash about semantic and an unified data store, which currently has more unstable backends than the desktop has apps. Choose one and make it work, people! I will not buy that stuff before I see kmail2, which honestly believes it can build on this (q/k)uicksand. But kmail2 is loong overdue. I bet they spend most of their time trying to straighten out, if not actually create the backends.
These days i'm a KDE user just because gnome apps fit in kde better than kde apps in gnome.
Now Gnome is all like 'we want our own plasma shell just because'. When will the linux desktop grow balls to have it's own face and identity, rather than trying to copy others? A copycat has the chance to make it number #1 only if it has the $ of microsoft. Other than that, you're just number #2 like bono.
For what I gather, the desktop metaphor is pretty much finalized, and the resulting idle hands will leave no good design standing if they can replace it with something opaque. If this trend continues we will all be using XFCE in 2013.
The saga continues...